The Missing Ink on the Common Core
"Standards are boring," is her conclusion, though she also surmises that the standards are "too removed" or won't really effect change.
Let me throw out another possibility: state departments of education aren't communicating adoption of the standards to reporters, much less the public.
ASCD has just posted a map to keep track of the states that have adopted the Common Core with a link to the official standards adoption announcement or decision. Compiling the links to official state education action on an issue of such national prominence as the Common Core has been an eye-opening experience. It has not been as easy as might have been expected.
Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Utah all issued press releases or provided some easily found statement confirming the state had adopted the common core.
But for other states, such information is hard to come by.
On June 16, the New Jersey State Board of Education adopted the Common Core according to this news account, but the only press release issued from the department on that date touted the receipt of $45 million in federal school turnaround grants.
The Hawaii State Board of Education has posted no announcement or press